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eadership deceived us this is the prime reason i will vote no on the contract i believe it s coming soon and i believe the unity caucus will claim these rallies had something to do with it i believe the rallies are entirely for show if we had real demands we d take real actions it s nice that mulgrew pays lip service to strike but the fact is we haven t heard him say much about it until he was put on the spot still most of the uft s messaging is focused on administrative burden paperwork stuff since they may be boxed in on wages and as jill points out a strike threat isn t super credible but might be an effort to energize members alex zimmerman agzimmerman may 24 2023 i don t know about you but i m not energized by lies i m energized by fighting for real progress our leadership mulgrew included is moving us backward we should be a vibrant force the powerful teachers union the tabloids are always complaining about instead we re a sleeping giant step one in awakening this sleeping giant is tossing the unity caucus out of power we ll begin that process with the retirees i hope to be one by election time posted by nyc educator at 10 03 am view comments wednesday may 17 2023 mlc what is it good for the city unions have an umbrella organization called the municipal labor committee or mlc i may have mentioned them once or twice on this page this group acts on its own it does not seek approval from rank and file that of course is an issue when they make deals at some point to save money for the city they agreed that all new city employees would be in hip for the first year i was not that upset by that many employees don t last longer than that of course many disagreed suggesting it was a slippery slope it turns out they were absolutely correct emboldened by this agreement mlc made a new money saving deal in 2018 so far this has resulted in retirees being dragged out of medicare and dumped into an advantage plan administered by aetna it s hard for me to understand how giving aetna the right to pre approve our care will make it better it s hard for me to understand how having fewer available doctors helps city employees of course i m not on the mlc now they re looking for providers that will offer health insurance for us at 10 less it s impossible for me to imagine that we will not pay for that either with higher copays fewer providers or more likely both the prime directive of mlc like that of uft president michael mulgrew appears to be saving money for mayor eric adams you can t make this stuff up i ve worked for new york city for the last 38 years when i started teaching my salary was around 13k in fact i was offered a job driving for fedex that paid more nonetheless what everyone told me was that while i wasn t making a whole lot of money right now we had a great retirement plan and health coverage this didn t matter much to me at the time i really couldn t picture being retirement age and yet here i am i m thinking about retiring july 1st if i do that i ll be among the first group of retirees to have diminished health coverage of course many unions disagreed however they were voted down by uft and dc37 who supposedly represented more members never mind that not a single one of them was consulted about this all things considered i don t love the mlc don t ask me to send them a christmas card you d think though that mlc could get together and work in the interests of membership specifically they could work to improve our contracts citywide this year for example dc37 agreed to 3 a year for the next five years however considering cost of living we won t catch up to this year s inflation until the contract ends that s a bargain basement deal for eric adams at our considerable expense now i m sure dc37 s members need more money many of them are paid close to minimum wage it s tough for them and a 3k bonus surely sweetens the pot i understand why they voted overwhelmingly to ratify i think uft will vote to ratify as well this notwithstanding mlc could do better it s tough to imagine how they can do worse why can t they put their heads together and decide for example on a minimum they will accept for a round of pattern bargaining and why can t this keep up with inflation at the very least there are some trust issues i m sure for example in 95 there was this pattern that was total crap and dc37 voted it up supposedly later their leaders were convicted of vote rigging i think that was the year we voted down the contract and got a letter from then president sandy feldman that we must be smoking something if we thought we could improve on it but i also distinctly recall hitting max salary at 22 years rather than 25 as the original would have made me wait i m glad we voted it down now i shouldn t just beat up on dc37 because we re not without blame either we accepted and established a crappy pattern in 2014 we did this because we were so absolutely desperate to recover the two years of 4 that many of our colleagues had received it would have made much more sense to have simply gone to arbitration we d almost certainly have gotten what everyone else did and in the highly unlikely event we didn t we d have finally put an end to pattern bargaining our negotiators are awful they fancy themselves brilliant mulgrew frequently gets up on his hind legs at the da boasting of how smart they are we along with dc37 dominate the mlc with great dominance comes great responsibility and yet the geniuses over there have not figured out how to come together and face down the pattern there is absolutely no downside in demanding a compensation increase for all that matches cost of living perhaps there s a trust deficit in uft and dc37 and perhaps it needs to be repaired if that s the case our leaders need to make that priority one what will our leaders say that s easy it s never been done that way it s always been done this way someone on twitter mentioned the other day that doing nothing is not a winning strategy yet that appears to be the only strategy mlc has for getting us paid they re pathetic all they do is hurt us mlc need to change its mo or it needs to be replaced with something that serves us the people who serve the city posted by nyc educator at 7 11 am view comments monday may 15 2023 two things you may not request in a faircontractnow hi it s me your esteemed uft president mike mulgrew first don t mess with me or i ll sue your worthless ass getting down to business we re negotiating a contract and it s very important that you all join me in a fight for a faircontractnow that s one of those hashtag thingies they use on twitter and hey everyone should be on twitter except me i don t like it because people might say nasty things to me and hurt my feelings but you do it what s the worst that could happen look at the bright side it won t be happening to me the other reason i m not on twitter because i have very important stuff to do here on the 14th floor at 52 broadway but that s where you duespayers come in so get out there and we ll let you know when and what to tweet until then just keep demanding that faircontractnow i want you to know we are laser focused on getting some kind of paperwork thingie done for you so feel free to demand paperwork stuff i can t tell you exactly what paperwork stuff because everyone on the negotiating team has signed an nda but you get out there and demand whatever it is anyway that s what we call union activism by the way i d just like to mention a few things you may not demand in our faircontractnow one of them is money money comes and goes but it doesn t look like much of it is coming to you as you know dc37 got three percent a year now that may not sound so good when you consider that social security rated the cost of living at 5 9 for 2022 and 8 7 for 2023 but hey does social security give those folks a bonus of course they don t but dc37 got a three thousand buck bonus along with the three percent so there you go that s maybe enough to buy the sort of used car i see a lot of you out there driving don t you want a new used car don t listen to those frigging fearmongers in the other caucuses the ones telling you that getting a 3 raise when there s 8 7 inflation is a 5 7 cut in pay first of all are you going to be persuaded by mere arithmetic arithmetic is for first graders and you are all college educated let s grow up here shall we i am the president of the united federation of teachers and as far as you know i didn t get here by behaving like a first grader let me tell you there were all kinds of maneuvers i had to make to get here and look it s not like this doesn t pay off i make three times your salary i still get paid as a full time teacher though i don t teach at all and i have these jobs at nysut and aft too also when i retire i will collect not only one pension from the doe but also another from uft so are you gonna sit there and whine about getting a 3 compensation increase or are you gonna start running for uft president make no mistake i can t do this job forever and once i step down everyone in my caucus is gonna pretend i never existed and take no responsibility for either this contract your health care reductions or anything else never mind that all of them expressed full throated support and none lifted a finger to stop me anyhoo the other thing that you may not ask about in faircontractnow is health care look you can t spend all your time worried about your health after all this job is a calling so start getting your mind in the game health is all a state of mind start thinking about what i think about which is how i can save money for eric adams how can i satisfy that visionary deal i made in 2018 to save the city 600 million dollars a year forever get with the program folks i just dumped all the retirees into some medicare advantage plan and now they ll need preapproval for stuff and can t see all the doctors they used to see don t feel neglected i m working on improving your health care as well the way i m going to do that is by cutting 10 off of what we pay to insure you now sure that sounds like a lot but look at it this way it s gonna save a crapload of money for eric adams and he really needs it among other things to pay police double what the city allots for their overtime now i may ask you to wear blue one day it could be orange you never know but doing stuff like that is important in our quest for a faircontractnow so don t forget to do whatever we tell you to do whenever we tell you to do it if you don t you re against union activism then we can trash you on twitter and elsewhere and stereotype you and all your friends and your little dog too so get out there wear blue or green or whatever when we tell you to and loudly demand the city grant us some unspecified something or other about paperwork do not ask about money or health remember this job is a calling that means you can t be worried about your selfish needs you just worry about serving those students i ll focus on making more money for eric adams you follow these ground rules and we ll get along fine otherwise i ll sic my lawyers on you remember union activism is you doing whatever i tell you to do whenever i tell you to don t step outside those lines and we ll get along just fine your dear leader michael mulgrew posted by nyc educator at 7 53 am view comments wednesday may 10 2023 blogging is slow right now but you can read my new piece in city limits giving chapter and verse as to how uft leadership behaves in a distinctly anti union fashion those of us teaching the children of new york city do the work not only are we not getting the support we need but we have leadership that actively works against our interests this has to change you can even read their response which disputes absolutely nothing i wrote and insinuates those of us critical of their outlandish actions are a bunch of crybabies posted by nyc educator at 4 01 pm view comments 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